Last week, Larry Wilmore addressed the anti-vaccination controversy on his new and well-regarded Comedy Central vehicle, The Nightly Show. Predictably, he lampooned famous "anti-vaxxers" such as Jenny McCarthy and her now-dis...

One paradox of the smart-tech age is that our devices are, when you think about them, kind of scary, and yet they make cute noises. They beep and chime and gurgle and hiccup, as if guided by some focus group’s conclusion that nothing makes us smile quite like a toy...

I'm an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. I study social media genres and literacy practices. I regularly teach graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses on digital ethnography methods, social media literacies, and rhetorical genre studies. I live in Tempe, Arizona with my husband Dave (@azrunning), daughter Nina, and our 2 dogs Chico and Sasha.